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Actually, here's a question for the paleontology/paleoart minded;

the counterpart to the "dromaeosaurs with slit pupils," I really like illustrating thyreophorans and ceratopsians with horizontal pupils. But given that dinosaurs had sclerotic rings is that anatomically possible?

@Leucrotta quick wikipedia research shows geckos have sclerotic rings but big slit pupils

@Leucrotta however! birds almost all have round pupils, with one exception, the skimmer family (genus Rynchops)

@Leucrotta generally animals with slit pupils are ambush predators I guess so it would not be a stretch to imagine dromaeosaurids might have had them

Ok I hush now

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